With detectives' salaries at risk, thousands spent on TVs, tools

2:31 AM,
May 19, 2013

Under Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold, fund has a net loss of $365,000.

Written by

Mark Bell
| Gannett Tennessee

Sheriff Robert Arnold is asking the Rutherford County government to absorb the salaries of three narcotics detectives, but a review of public records has revealed that thousands of dollars from the drug control fund has been spent on tool sets, iTunes gift cards, high-definition televisions and dozens of other items.

Money for those items is being spent even as the county's drug fund continues to shrink, cutting into the sheriff's ability to fund narcotics detectives, who are historically paid through the drug fund. The sheriff already absorbed two other narcotics positions into the ...